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Based on the results of an action-research conducted between 2011 and 2013 having for project and title to “collectively re-know (recognize) the value of school trips”, we will show how this very old and relatively systematized practice in schools, without having been conceptualized, nor clinically observed, is an important pole of education innovation as well as a moment of subjectivation, via the mediated meeting of oneself and the other. Between rite and ritual, the trip will be presented as an institutional, organizational, group and subjective event that renews for all subjects involved the question of the relationship to Knowing and knowledge of the other and others. At a time where all forms of mobility, in various registers of psychic life (intra-subjective, intersubjective and trans-subjective), become a major stake for the young generations and subsequently for those who accompany them, this first experience of traveling with peers is the opportunity of a Culture shock as well as a clash of cultures. Two groups of teenage travellers, one to Benin, the other to Grenada, profoundly transformed by this experience, enable us to show the gap and tension between the “narcissism of small differences” (Freud, 1929) which mobilized adolescents before their departure and the meeting with otherness that they relentlessly described to better metabolize after their return.